Is man his own worst enemy?

Our world is on a downhill spiral to the bleak unknown, undoubtedly, the effect of man itself. Countless tragedies have occurred in every country, critically affecting the way we live our lives today. In Africa, the ethnic battle of the Hutu and Tutsi decimated over one million people. The Chinese are still dealing with the struggle of a gender imbalanced society which came from inflicting deaths on unwanted infant girls. Now, in America, the difficulty of getting an education gets increasingly arduous every year. In all these scenarios there is a common denominator; man, slowly but surely, destroying man. Generally speaking, Africa’s Hutu-Tutsi genocide is one of the largest of its kind, murdering over one million people in a time span of a few years. This was no natural disaster or terrible accident that caused these deaths, but a direct effect of mans capitalistic mindset that makes any person with different views a target for destruction. Religion has been practiced for thousands of centuries; it is the basis of almost all ethnic groups. For something that’s meant to represent peace, man has corrupted it to be a twisted and sick game of who can get who first. In the same way man has manipulated religion, man has changed the way we look at birth. In China, what should be the joyous arrival of a baby girl is now viewed as a bad thing. They turned away baby girls for so long, they have dug themselves into a deep hole of gender imbalance. Today, in China they lack enough girls to reproduce, something that could have been avoided if they hadn’t shunned them away in the first place. Irrevocably, something they pushed for so long ended up placing them in a worse place than where they started out. What is it about mans need for control that ends up back firing on them constantly? Furthermore, here in America, getting a college education has become not an option, but a necessity to survive the work force. If you